On view:19 November 2017 12:00 to 16:0020 November 2017 10:00 to 20:0021 November 2017 10:00 to 17:00

Lots: 401-450 of 501

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Lot 408A GEORGE V SILVER MODEL OF A TUDOR STYLE GALLEON, WILLIAM COMYNS & SONS, LONDON, 1927the fully rigged vessel with mainsail decorated with a cipher for Queen Elizabeth I below a flag embossed with her coat of arms, the deck with coils of rope and sailors at work, below with twenty-four cannon at the open gunports above the rippled sea, on an ebonised wood waisted plinth with inscribed silver plaque53cm long, 49cm high overall, weighable silver 3216gr (103oz)

The inscription reads: Launch of S.S. "San Claudio" 23rd December 1927. The ceremony was performed by Mrs Andrew Agnew to whom this silver ship is presented by The Eagle Oil Transport Co. Ltd. as a memento of the occasion.

The S.S. San Claudio was a steam tanker of 3231 tons built by Sir W.G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. on the Tyne. She was one of twenty such vessels, all named after Spanish saints, ordered by Weetman Dickinson Pearson, Baron Cowdray of Midhurst, for Eagle Oil Transport; the first, the S.S. Dunstano was launched in 1912.

Comyns made a presentation galleon of this same pattern for the launch of each tanker from this series. The first model (for the S.S. San Dunstano) was sold in these rooms, 20 June 2015, lot 232, and another, the third, Neal Auction Company, New Orleans, 12/13 October 2002, lot 594.
Estimate: £2000 - 3000 Click here for details of BP and other fees payable on this lot.

Lot 418A VICTORIAN SILVER CENTREPIECE STAND CONVERTED FOR USE AS A LAMP, EDWARD BARNARD & SONS, LONDON, 1870the circular base applied with shells and Renaissance dolphins, the figural stem formed as a merman holding a globe on his shoulders, screw-in baluster top section applied with openwork scroll foliate spandrels39cm high, 1330gr (42oz) excluding top section with later brass long screw
Estimate: £600 - 900 Click here for details of BP and other fees payable on this lot.

Provenance: St. Dunstan's Parish Church, Bolnhurst, Bedfordshire; bought from Edward Barnard & Sons by James Payne Storey, Silver Retailer and Jeweller of 176 Regent Street, London, on 25th Sept 1852 (Barnard Ledgers, V. & A., Blythe House). The flagon may have been bought from Storey in memory of Sophia Wade-Gery (died September 1851), wife of the incumbent Rev. Hugh Wade-Gery. The vestry at the Church was built in her memory and the East Window dedicated to her.
Estimate: £300 - 500 Click here for details of BP and other fees payable on this lot.

Sold for:
£420

Lot 426SET OF FOUR SILVER CANDLESTICKS AND A PAIR OF SHEFFIELD PLATE CANDELABRA BRANCHES, JOHN & THOMAS SETTLE AND THEIR SUCCESSORS HENRY WILKINSON & CO., SHEFFIELD, 1825/37the sticks with stamped foliate and shell borders, the circular bases engraved with a crest rising to flared stems and campana-shaped scones, with two crested detachable nozzles, the three-light branches of conforming pattern, each of two scrolled arms and central lightcandelabra 47cm high, sticks 28cm high, loaded
Estimate: £1500 - 2500 Click here for details of BP and other fees payable on this lot.

Lot 427A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER SALT CELLARS, PETER PODIO, LONDON, 1795square pedestal bases, lobed circular bowls, each engraved with a crest below the reeded lip; together with a set of four Victorian silver salt cellars made to match and engraved with the same crest, Robert Harper & Son, London, 187411cm over handles, 647gr (20oz 16dwt), excluding fitted morocco case of circa 1874(6)
Estimate: £300 - 500 Click here for details of BP and other fees payable on this lot.

Provenance: Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland (1856-1937). Known as Queen of The Souls (the artistic and intellectual loose association of friends), she painted and sculpted, despite no formal training and is best known for her depictions of family and their circle. Much admired as a beauty (as was her daughter Lady Diana Cooper), she was painted by G.F. Watts amongst others. Thence by descent.
Estimate: £600 - 900 Click here for details of BP and other fees payable on this lot.

Given the shape, plus the workmen's mark (of a cross and dot) to the underside, this teapot may be reasonably firmly attributed to Emes & Barnard (or perhaps John Emes on his own, who was buried in the parish of St Giles Cripplegate 27 May 1808, aged 44).
Estimate: £150 - 250 Click here for details of BP and other fees payable on this lot.

Lot 437A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER CANDLESTICKS, JOHN SCOFIELD, LONDON, 1798, WITH THEIR CONTEMPORARY SHEFFIELD PLATE CANDELABRA BRANCHESwith gadroon borders throughout, the circular bases each later engraved to the rim 'From W.O.G. 30th Septr. 1885', the flared cylindrical stems terminating in a border of vertical reeding below the campana-shaped sconces with bands of lobes, complete with one contemporary and one associated nozzle, the three-light branches each with twin scroll-swept and fluted arms, with matching sconces above drip-pans, with four nozzlessticks 29.5cm high, overall 45cm high, one stick loaded and with wood base, the other loaded to stem only
Estimate: £1800 - 2000 Click here for details of BP and other fees payable on this lot.

The arms on the meat dish cover may be for the Huguenot family of Champagné of Portarlington, Ireland, with a crescent at the top indicating a second son during the lifetime of his father, with the female side perhaps those of Galland or Gallant.
Estimate: £80 - 120 Click here for details of BP and other fees payable on this lot.

Sold for:
£60

Lot 447A SET OF FOUR GEORGE II SILVER SALT CELLARS, MARKS RUBBED, PROBABLY JOHN LINGARD, LONDON, 1738 AND CIRCAshaped oval, each on four cast scroll and shell supports below applied cast and chased borders of lion masks, scrolls and foliage14cm wide, 930gr (29oz)

Provenance (by family repute): Princess Elizabeth (1770-1840), the seventh child of George III, who married Prince Frederick VI of Hesse-Homburg in 1818. Dying without issue, some items from her estate went to her niece by marriage, Caroline of Hesse-Homburg (1819-1872), who married Prince Heinrich XX of Reuss zu Greiz. Thence by family descent.

Egg (or acorn) shape nutmeg graters made in Birmingham at this date seem to have been the almost exclusive province of Joseph Taylor or Samuel Pemberton. Taylor's products tend to be marked to the exterior, whilst those of Pemberton's manufacture are interior marked and often feature such bright-cut and wrigglework decoration as found here.
Estimate: £150 - 250 Click here for details of BP and other fees payable on this lot.

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